Rossi, Alice S.

Rossi, Alice S. (b. Schaerr)

(1922– ) sociologist, educator; born in New York City. This Columbia University Ph.D. pursued an academic career, mostly at the University of Massachusetts: Amherst (1974–91). She became a leading feminist scholar as the author and editor of works on family, kinship, sex, and gender; she is particularly noted for her studies of personality development at all ages, what sociologists refer to as "life-course" analyses. Her works include The Feminist Papers (1973), Gender and the Life Course (1985), and Of Human Bonding (coauthored, 1990).